Pierre Lescure, 68, the former CEO of Canal+, was elected President of the Cannes Film Festival in July 2014

He will succeed Gilles Jacob Gilles Jacob, 83-year-old president since 2001, who last served at the 67th edition of the Festival in 2014. Pierre Lescure was a radio journalist at RTL, Europe 1 and RMC, then presenter of the 20-hour day of Antenne 2 (1973) and he also launched the famous show «Children of Rock» with Antoine de Caunes. He had a fulgurance in his career by co-founder, at 40, the French pay channel Canal+, in 1984. A channel ubiquitous in film production.Having radio, and also from America he loves Rock and collects old records. Became director of the theatre Marigny in 2008, In 2012, he published memoirs in «In the baba» where he settles his accounts...

The future president of the Cannes Film Festival, who shared the life of Catherine Deneuve in the 1980s and succeeded Gilles Jacob at the head of the world's first film festival, he again became a key man in 7th art.